Boston will host Game 1 and every game in the Final has a scheduled puck drop at 7:00 p.m. CT. All the games will also be on KMOX 1120 AM and any conflicting St. Louis Cardinals game will be aired on Y98.

The Blues and Bruins are among the most disciplined teams in the playoffs, which has helped them reach this point. Now they'll have to deal with another issue: idle hands with so much time off.

Boston will have a week and a half between finishing off Carolina and Game 1, and even St. Louis will go six days without playing. Bowman during his coaching career recalled making his players scrimmage at night to keep them in a rhythm, but there's no real substitute for the grind of the playoffs.